Date: Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:53 PM
A few more things I wanted to tell yall but forgot in the big email. First. Anytime you want to send a letter or just a package or anything. Look at Missionary MX. Its a company that is literally down the street from the CCM. Its like Dear Elder but better or something. I get the letter that day and can read it. Also packages are always nice:)))) and i get them like the day after you send it! Otherwise it would take ages to get a regular letter or package.
Also for my scripture...I think I will go with Alma 29:9-10
Thank you Dad so much for getting that Bike thing all worked out. You are the best and I love you!! I am so glad I do not have to memorize lessons. It is DRILLED into us here that we are teaching members not lessons but maybe it would be nice to have them memorized.. but maybe in english rather than spanish haaha
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Saryn Moline <> wrote:
This week has flown by!!! But at the same time i feel as though I have been here for 2 years rather than 2 weeks.
Dad, yes there are only 500 missionaries here right now but at one time we did have over 1000 here but that was before I came here. I like having a small amount of missionaries here!
A typical day here is sooo busy. We barely have time to breath but I seriously love it because we learn SO MUCH and fell the spirit every step of the way.
Technically our Disctrict is in week 3 here and week 3 is supposed to be the peak of all the learning here in regards to the language. I still feel very inadequate with the spanish but I need to give myself a break because I have literally learned sooooooo much, I didnt know a lick of spanish coming out here and i can already testify and pray and semi hold a conversation with some of the workers here. I have become friends with some of the workers here at the cafeteria or the Comedor as we call it. All the natives are sooooo nice and friendly and know we all stink at spanish but love to talk to us anyways. ANYWAYS. a typical day: We wake up around 6ish and go to personal study in our classroom with our disctrict. we can study whatever we want at this time. So I usually read the Book of Mormon and PMG. Then we have Breakfast at 8am. After breakfast we go back to our classroom and have 3 hours with out maestro, Hermano Trejo, Trejo is 21 and went on his mission to Chihuahua. He is THE BEST. we all love him. during those 3 hours we have language study, Coaching( how to be a better teacher), and Progessing investigator. Progressing investigato is when we teach our ¨´investigators´ we teach two investigators. One is Franklin! Whos is played by Hermano Trejo and the other is Mario who is played by our other maestro Hermano Hernandez. I would go into detail but its not super important. WhAT is important is that Hermana Benioni ROCKED at teaching Franklin and Marion this week. We dont have to use our notes anymore. Just an outline of what we want to say in english so that we have to transalate on the spot. The spirit is so strong!! Even when I dont fully understand what they are saying to us hahahaha
After that we usually have gym and then lunch. i always play volleyball and it is literally the best everrrrrr it is so fun. i love it. After lunch we go back to class for Additional Study time on our own then we have TALL. TALL is a computer program designed to help missionaries with grammar and stuff in spanish. I seriously dont know what it is but every time I walk into our TALL lab I immediately start falling asleep.. iTS AWFUL. Everyone hates it but it sometimes can really help. but i get so tired the second I start it haha
After TALL we have another 3 hours with our other maestro Hermano Hernandez. He is the BOMB: but literally speaks spanish faster than most of the natives. Hes like a freaking motor. I listen to him speak and im like...´that aint the language their teaching me...´just like in RM hahaha its awful but its better this way cause we will get more used to it and over time we will understand him. He is also a wonderful teacher and is just a spiritual giant.. Then we have dinner and then language study on our own and additional study together as a District.
Every Tuesday we have a Special Devotional that is sometimes broadcasted from the MTC in Provo. This week it was Elder Dallin H. Oakes. His message was simple yet powerful. Some of my favorite things he said were:
¨The more you invest the greater the return.´it made me think that I can do so much more than I am doing now. I can invest so much more of myself. Because our God is a multiplier of works. The more I do. The more He can do with me. Another thing was he quoted Ezra Taft Benson in PMG saying that ´ Without the Spirit you will be unsuccssful regardless of talent or skill.´ That really made me think of the language. Yes it is hard and yes we are struggling but THE SPIRIT is the teacher. No matter how much spanish I know, i am not the teacher. Also, that we must be like Paul and ´´Dwell in Christ´going along with the investment and the return.
It was so humbling to look around and see all of us Elders and Hermanas during that devotional. We are kids. We are punk kids and yet we are responsible for so much. Salvation is on the line and so much faith is put into us. Faith of God. And if He has faith in us. We should never feel inadequate or that we cannot do this. For if God is with us, Who can be against us? For we are called of God. And if we are called of God, we have nothing to lose.
I LOve you all soooooo much!!!!!! I LOVE what i am doing. I LOVE my Savior so very much, And I cant help but love the people of Alabama soooo much.
Thank you all for your love and support, it means so much to me
}Hermana Molioni
Sorry that was so long but I can tell you that ever day, every hour, every second. The spirit is here.
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